Albums to look forward to in 2010

So 2009 is slowly coming to an end and the musical year of 2010 is vaguely beginning to take shape. Personally I'm really, really looking forward to January and February already. Here are a few of the reasons:

It kind of surprises me as I haven't paid that much attention to either Charlotte Gainsbourg's or Becks' projects before but their forthcoming album, 'IRM', is beginning to become one of the records of 2010 I'm looking most forward to. This track, 'Heaven Can Wait', its fantastic video (featuring more than one WTF moment) and the title track (available as a free download on the web) seem very promising to me. Also, I've always loved Charlotte's speaking voice, so it's probably about time I check out her music.


I might only have been a Final Fantasy fan for about a year but I almost feel like I've been waiting for 'Heartland' as long as everyone else - that's about 3 or 4 years. With Owen having played so many of the new songs live and them all sounding incredible I've become less and less patient - if it is even half as amazing as I already feel like it is/will be I won't be disappointed. Just a little less than two months to go and I will finally get to hear this album... and if I'm really lucky, I might even get to see him live again in January. Fingers crossed!


Over the last few days Efterklang have bombarded their Facebook and MySpace followers with YouTube videos of different so-called 'magic chairs' (my favorite: http://tinyurl.com/ya92vrs) and I'm probably not the only person who has been wondering why. Today the reason was revealed - their new album is titled 'Magic Chairs' and is released on February 22 next year. The new songs they played last week in Aarhus all sounded very lovely and so this album one I definitely look forward to. Above is a video of one my favorites of the new songs they played last Friday.


When I saw the artwork for Vampire Weekend's 'Cousins' single I thought 'that's got to be a still from the video'. I was right. The video is quirky, cute and very, well, Vampire Weekend. The song will probably always remind me of being in Hyde Park in bottle rain while waiting for VW to finish and Blur to finally enter the stage. Doesn't make it less of a good song, though.